General Sherlock has issued an order to exterminate the bandits of Taney County; shoot them like animals and hang all prisoners. So, when sixteen-year-old Billy Stark falls into a trap and attempts to steal an Army payroll, the military are hot on his trail. Fleeing for his life and burdened by a wounded companion, Billy faces extreme peril and is lured into a world where lynching, torture and bullets have replaced the law. Striving to maintain his morality, Billy finds himself drawn deeper into a web of evil...
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About the Author:
Mark Bannerman is the pseudonym of Anthony C Lewing who was born at Colchester, Essex. He was educated at Kings College School, Wimbledon, and served for thirty-five years in the British Army before retiring to pursue his great interest - writing about the Old West. He has travelled extensively in the settings of many of his stories and owns a large reference library on the various aspects of the subject. He has also written a novel about the English West: The Cornish Woman. He lived in Ash Vale, Surrey, with his French-born wife Francoise.
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- PublisherRobert Hale Ltd
- ISBN 10 0719807964
- ISBN 13 9780719807961
- BindingHardcover